Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

a global engineering consultancy firm, has delivered its report that evaluates NOVONIX’s all-dry, zero-waste cathode synthesis process. The Hatch study found that NOVONIX’s process may potentially reduce power consumption by an estimated 25% and practically eliminate waste byproduct generation over the conventional process.

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Waste Lithium Ion Sodium Water 150

Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled.

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Building Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 95

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

for the materials and possibly good enough for consideration for waste heat recovery in automotive exhaust systems. The high thermoelectric figure of merit is expected to enable the conversion of 14% of heat waste to electricity. ZT of ball-milled and hot-pressed sample in comparison with that of the ingot. Click to enlarge.

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Conversion Boston Waste Universal 231

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2010

New Zealand-based waste gas and syngas to fuels company LanzaTech ( earlier post ) has attracted US$18 million in Series B financing from investors led by China-focused venture capital firm Qiming Ventures. LanzaTech uses proprietary bacteria to convert industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals. Gary Reischel.

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New Zealand Waste China Financing 170

Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled.

Building 52

Building Batteries Battery Charging 52

Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The survey examined a set of nine environmental, economic, and social resources: capital use, water use, and waste generated as well as emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides, and volatile organic compounds; further, the number of employees and the number of work accidents are taken into account.

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Sodium 2007 GM 2005 36

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The “simplicity” of EVs in comparison to ICE vehicles allows these disruptors to compete from virtually scratch with legacy automakers, not only in the car market itself, but for the material and labor inputs as well. It is little wonder that Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls EV factories “ gigantic money furnaces.”.

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Batteries Battery Lithium Ion Nickel Metal Hydride 100